Texas State Board of Education Delays New School Curriculum to 2025: Results and Responses

Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Have Their Say

An urgent broadcast with the Ethnic Studies for Texas Schools Coalition & the Texas Freedom Network to discuss Texas Education.

Tony speaks with education leaders, researchers, advocates, and parents regarding the impact this decision has and action plans to apply pressure and move the ethnic studies curriculums forward as this not only affects Mexican American Studies (MAS), but also African American Studies, Asian Asian American Studies and Indigenous / American Indian/Native Studies Courses.

Dr. Christopher Carmona - is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and the coordinator for Mexican American Studies for the Brownsville Campus of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is a member of the Ad Hoc Committee for the TX State Board of Education for Mexican American Studies, NACCS Tejas Foco Committee on Implementing Mexican American Studies in PreK-12 Education.

Dr. Valerie A. Martínez specializes in 20th Century Mexican American history, U.S. Military and Labor History, and Women’s and Gender Studies and a core member of the Ethnic Studies Network of Texas, and the chair of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas-Foco pre-K – 12 Committee. Dr. Martínez is currently an Assistant Professor of History and History Program Head at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Lawrence Scott currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Being the first African American to be Awarded San Antonio Business Journal's 40 Under 40 Man of the Year in 2018, was indicative to Dr. Scott's insatiable passion to make an indelible impact in the lives of others through education.

Lily Trieu is the Interim Executive Director of Asian Texans for Justice, a statewide nonprofit with a mission to connect Asian Texans of all identities to meaningful civic action to build personal and political power for future generations. Lily is personally passionate about equity and access to quality education as a means for personal and economic empowerment.

Orlando Lara is a critical race and ethnic studies scholar, legal and political anthropologist, cultural organizer, and writer. He is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology with an Emphasis in Race and Justice at UC Irvine and is working on a literary ethnography of citizenship review and invalidation in the US borderlands. A co-founder of the Ethnic Studies Network of Texas, Orlando works with educators, organizers, and community leaders to grow Ethnic Studies in Texas at all grade levels.

Andrea Aguirre is a 5 year veteran middle school teacher with a Masters in Special Education. She currently consults in advanced technology for Web3, NFT, and Blockchain Technology in addition to diversity, equity & inclusion. She is a Teach Plus Ready to Lead Fellow alumni. She is co-authoring the book, Invisible con ADHD: Real Policy Real voices of Latino Students with Nicole Biscotti, M.Ed.

Emilio Zamaro - holds the Clyde Rabb Littlefield Chair in Texas History at the University of Texas at Austin, and is a Fellow of the George W. Littlefield Professorship in American History. He writes and teaches on the history of Mexicans in the United States, Texas history and oral history, and focuses on the working class and transnational experiences of Mexicans in Texas during the twentieth century.

Annette Anderson, LCSW - Annette Anderson serves on the Council for the Indigenous Institute of the Americas. She collaborated in the writing of the Grand Prairie ISD American Indian/Native Studies Course for the past 2.5 years. Annette is the co-founder of the Seed Ambassador Program, Indigenous Grocery Store and Food as Medicine projects for IIA.

Nuestra Palabra is funded in part by the BIPOC Arts Network Fund.

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